FAU Freshman Bradley Springer and His Friend Pull Off an Awesome Prank on the Miami Herald

The Miami Herald issued an incredibly lame correction this afternoon on a story that appeared on the front page of their sports section earlier this week. The brief, ambiguous note seems to be an admission that one of the paper's most celebrated sports reporters was completely and utterly duped, Borat-style, by an FAU student and his buddy.

Bradley Springer, a freshman at FAU, and Jonathan Taylor dressed up like Russian basketball fans -- replete with face paint and fake accents -- and attended the Heat's scrimmage against CSKA Moscow. When Herald reporter Linda Robertson interviewed them for more than 15 minutes, they shared tales of fake Russian rappers who love "LeeBron" and talked about how much Russians love basketball.

"The NBA is the new vodka in Russia,'' one of them told Roberts.

The fake Russians, Pavel and Yuri Kopeche, made the lede in Roberts' story the next day.

"A column that ran on page 1D of Wednesday's sports section might have
included incorrect information from two men claiming to be Russian.
There's just no sure way of knowing."

That's right. It "might have included incorrect information." And really, "there's just no sure way of knowing."

No sure way of knowing that the two kids from Palm Beach are not Russians who think the NBA is bigger than vodka? No sure way of knowing that the Russian rapper "Don Zagru" not only doesn't like wearing LeBron jerseys but that he doesn't exist at all?

By that logic, there is also no way of knowing that Pavel and Yuri aren't related to this guy:

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